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‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point
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Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg
Robin McKie
Sat 3 Feb 2024 16.00 GMT
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Tens of thousands of bogus research papers are being published in journals in an international scandal that is worsening every year, scientists have warned.
Medical research is being compromised, drug development hindered and promising academic research jeopardised thanks to a global wave of sham science that is sweeping laboratories and universities.
Last year the annual number of papers retracted by research journals topped 10,000 for the first time. Most analysts believe the figure is only the tip of an iceberg of
scientific fraud.
“The situation has become appalling,” said Professor Dorothy Bishop of Oxford University. “The level of publishing of fraudulent papers is creating serious problems for science. In many fields it is becoming difficult to build up a cumulative approach to a subject, because we lack a solid foundation of trustworthy findings. And it’s getting worse and worse.”
The startling rise in the publication of sham science papers has its roots in China, where young doctors and scientists seeking promotion were required to have published scientific papers. Shadow organisations – known as “paper mills” – began to supply fabricated work for publication in journals there.
Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg
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Bad China you are so corrupt lot of money to embezzled